Do any vegetarians live without leather?!
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I wont have leather in my house!.
An animal died to make that snazzy item,so no i buy items that are either vegan or veggie suitable!.
That includes shoes,you can google vegan shoes and see we do brilliantly without the torture or death of an innocent animal!. :)
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An animal died to make that snazzy item,so no i buy items that are either vegan or veggie suitable!.
That includes shoes,you can google vegan shoes and see we do brilliantly without the torture or death of an innocent animal!. :)
Good question though!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Yes!.
I am a vegan, but was a vegetarian before that!. I haven't worn leather since I was a child!.
It's very easy to live without leather - there are so many alternatives out there!. You might be suprised if you have a look in "normal" shoe shops - there are a fair few shoes out there which look like leather but aren't!.
Failing that, there are lots of non-leather shoes online or in mail order catalogues!.
I have always thought that despite leather being a byproduct of the meat industry, and the animals not being killed specificlly for leather, by suporting it anf buying leather you make it more profitable for them to do this!.
Plus, about two tirds of leather sold in the UK is from India - you don't want to know how those animals are treated, trust me!Www@FoodAQ@Com
I am a vegan, but was a vegetarian before that!. I haven't worn leather since I was a child!.
It's very easy to live without leather - there are so many alternatives out there!. You might be suprised if you have a look in "normal" shoe shops - there are a fair few shoes out there which look like leather but aren't!.
Failing that, there are lots of non-leather shoes online or in mail order catalogues!.
I have always thought that despite leather being a byproduct of the meat industry, and the animals not being killed specificlly for leather, by suporting it anf buying leather you make it more profitable for them to do this!.
Plus, about two tirds of leather sold in the UK is from India - you don't want to know how those animals are treated, trust me!Www@FoodAQ@Com
there is a vegitarian and a non hypocrytical vegitarian!. A vegitarian doesn't eat meat but it eats everything else!. A non hypocrytical vegitarian doesn't eat meat and doesn't wear leather basically the same as a vegan but they eat dairy products and aren't as extreme!. I am a peskitarian, i eat fish but no other meat (i would be a non hypocrytical vegitarian but my mum is forcing me to eat fish :()
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hope i have helped :)Www@FoodAQ@Com
I have lived without leather since i became veggie 13 years ago, around 10% of the animals profit is for leather!.
Raising animals for food and leather requires huge amounts of feed crop and pastureland, water, and fossil fuels!. Animals on factory farms produce 130 times as much excrement as the entire human population, without the benefit of waste treatment plants!. The U!.S!. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has even acknowledged that livestock pollution is the greatest threat to our waterways!.
Although some leathermakers deceptively tout their products as "eco-friendly," turning skin into leather also requires massive amounts of energy and dangerous chemicals, including mineral salts, formaldehyde, coal-tar derivatives, and various oils, dyes, and finishes, some of them cyanide-based!. Most leather produced in the U!.S!. is chrome-tanned; all wastes containing chromium are considered hazardous by the EPA!. Tannery effluent contains large amounts of pollutants, such as salt, lime sludge, sulfides, and acids!. The process of tanning stabilizes the collagen or protein fibers in skins so that they actually stop biodegrading so that leather doesn't rot right off your feet!. Additionally, to raise the animals whose skin eventually becomes leather, trees are cleared to create pastureland, vast quantities of water are used, and feedlot and dairy-farm runoff create a major source of water pollution!. Huge amounts of fossil fuels are consumed in livestock production!. (By contrast, plastic wearables account for only a fraction of the petroleum used in the U!.S!.)
People who work in and live near tanneries suffer too!. Many are dying from cancer caused by exposure to toxic chemicals used to process and dye the leather!. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the incidence of leukemia among residents in an area near one tannery in Kentucky was five times the U!.S!. average!. Arsenic, a common tannery chemical, has long been associated with lung cancer in workers who are exposed to it on a regular basis!. Studies of leather-tannery workers in Sweden and Italy found cancer risks "between 20% and 50% above [those] expected!."
Wearing leather hurts animals, the environment, and the people who produce it!. The only ones who benefit are the people who profit from the misery and suffering of others!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Raising animals for food and leather requires huge amounts of feed crop and pastureland, water, and fossil fuels!. Animals on factory farms produce 130 times as much excrement as the entire human population, without the benefit of waste treatment plants!. The U!.S!. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has even acknowledged that livestock pollution is the greatest threat to our waterways!.
Although some leathermakers deceptively tout their products as "eco-friendly," turning skin into leather also requires massive amounts of energy and dangerous chemicals, including mineral salts, formaldehyde, coal-tar derivatives, and various oils, dyes, and finishes, some of them cyanide-based!. Most leather produced in the U!.S!. is chrome-tanned; all wastes containing chromium are considered hazardous by the EPA!. Tannery effluent contains large amounts of pollutants, such as salt, lime sludge, sulfides, and acids!. The process of tanning stabilizes the collagen or protein fibers in skins so that they actually stop biodegrading so that leather doesn't rot right off your feet!. Additionally, to raise the animals whose skin eventually becomes leather, trees are cleared to create pastureland, vast quantities of water are used, and feedlot and dairy-farm runoff create a major source of water pollution!. Huge amounts of fossil fuels are consumed in livestock production!. (By contrast, plastic wearables account for only a fraction of the petroleum used in the U!.S!.)
People who work in and live near tanneries suffer too!. Many are dying from cancer caused by exposure to toxic chemicals used to process and dye the leather!. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the incidence of leukemia among residents in an area near one tannery in Kentucky was five times the U!.S!. average!. Arsenic, a common tannery chemical, has long been associated with lung cancer in workers who are exposed to it on a regular basis!. Studies of leather-tannery workers in Sweden and Italy found cancer risks "between 20% and 50% above [those] expected!."
Wearing leather hurts animals, the environment, and the people who produce it!. The only ones who benefit are the people who profit from the misery and suffering of others!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I try to!.
I do have some things I bought earlier though, and I'm not going to throw them out or donate them and buy new things!.
The damage is already done, and before anyone gives me a thumbs down, saying I could donate it for someone to get good use of it and that I am being hypocritical, consider this:
*I* am getting good use out of these things!. I've already done the damage, so why not use them!? I have other things to spend money on right now, like rent and schoolbooks!.
The best thing I can do is make better decisions in the future!.
Giving things away or throwing them out is not going to change the fact that my purchase required the death of animal!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I do have some things I bought earlier though, and I'm not going to throw them out or donate them and buy new things!.
The damage is already done, and before anyone gives me a thumbs down, saying I could donate it for someone to get good use of it and that I am being hypocritical, consider this:
*I* am getting good use out of these things!. I've already done the damage, so why not use them!? I have other things to spend money on right now, like rent and schoolbooks!.
The best thing I can do is make better decisions in the future!.
Giving things away or throwing them out is not going to change the fact that my purchase required the death of animal!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I'm a vegetarian, and I just got rid of my last piece of leather!. It was a belt from Hot Topic!. I really don't think that vegetarians should wear leather, it's kind of hypocritical !. Yes, it is already dead, but that doesn't mean that you have to wear it!. Donate it to charity or Goodwill!. Other people will get good use out of it!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Yes!.
I have been vegetarian (now vegan) for over 10 years, and I have not purchased any leather products in that time!. I had some leather shoes and sandals that I continued to wear until they wore out though!.
Most vegans will not buy leather, fur, silk, or wool!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I have been vegetarian (now vegan) for over 10 years, and I have not purchased any leather products in that time!. I had some leather shoes and sandals that I continued to wear until they wore out though!.
Most vegans will not buy leather, fur, silk, or wool!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Lots of vegetarians treat it as a dietary choice only, and continue to wear leather!. And lots see it as more of a lifestyle choice and avoid leather they same way most people avoid fur!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
No, vegetarians choose not to eat meat!. It is Vegans who refuse any animal products!.
My sister is a vegan who lives without leather - no shoes, no couches!. She won't even eat red things because some red food colouring is made from crushed beetles :sWww@FoodAQ@Com
My sister is a vegan who lives without leather - no shoes, no couches!. She won't even eat red things because some red food colouring is made from crushed beetles :sWww@FoodAQ@Com
I have leather shoes, leather wallet, leather belts!. We're not perfect people (vegetarians) but at least we try to make a difference by not supporting killing of animals for food!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I'm a vegan (type of vegetarian so I hope you don't mind me answering) and I don't wear/own any leather!.
Whether I consume their flesh or wear their skin!.!.!. to me its still cruel and immoral!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Whether I consume their flesh or wear their skin!.!.!. to me its still cruel and immoral!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I think I am working on donating my clothes with leather or real fur to Good Will!.
I am not buying anymore real leather & fur clothes!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I am not buying anymore real leather & fur clothes!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I've got leather sofa etc!. from a few years back that my parents got, but I have realised now and I do try to buy non leather items =]Www@FoodAQ@Com
I have a leather jacket,but was bought over four years ago!.!.
I won't be supporting that anymore!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I won't be supporting that anymore!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I don't wear leather, I'm a vegetarian!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
im vegan now, but when i was a veghead i didnt buy leather,Www@FoodAQ@Com
thats a good question, have a star!. I've often wondered about that too!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
yes i should imagine they do!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Sure, i don't buy leather!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
vegans doWww@FoodAQ@Com
Most of them probably do, they do not eat Animals because they want to prevent the Deaths of them, but not having leather and other Animal products is silly!. If it is already made you cannot prevent it!. They should just not buy new products!. My mother has a Fur coat, but it was made in the 1930's and Animal rights people tried to Paint her!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I'm a vegetarian and I have leather shoes!. A cow or pig isn't killed for its hide, it's killed for its meat!. The non-leather synthetic or cloth shoes are not good for my feet!. I would not ware a leather jacket though, since there are good alternatives!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
of course not, most even cheat with a Big Mac now and then!.Www@FoodAQ@Com